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10th Annual Federal Quality Conference

Get more information on this special conference and download a brochure and registration forms from our special conference section.

U.S. Navy International Logistics Symposium

Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton will be a guest speaker at a three-day International Logistics Symposium sponsored by the Navy International Programs Office in conjunction with the American Society of Naval Engineers, July 14-16, 1997, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Crystal City, VA. Representatives from government, industry and foreign nations will meet to exchange ideas and review exhibits on a variety of logistics topics related to the Navy's Foreign Military Sales program. For program information contact NAVSEA (703) 602-9000.

The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.

**TSP OPEN SEASON**The Thrift Savings Plan Open Season runs through July 31. During this time, you may begin contributing to the TSP, change the amount of your TSP contributions, or allocate TSP contributions to your account among the three investment funds. To get more information and download the forms you will need, click here.

FUNERAL MARCH--"Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees hope to embarrass the Agriculture Department today by staging a "funeral march" from USDA headquarters on Independence Avenue SW to the Ellipse to protest the "death" of the Rural Development Agency because of downsizing" (The Washington Post).

CHIEF NOMINEE--"Seven months after the post became vacant, President Clinton announced he will nominate Deputy Federal Highway Administrator Jane Garvey to head the Federal Aviation Administration" (The Washington Post).

BRIDGES--Welfare's urban poor need a lift to suburban jobs. "The Clinton administration is asking Congress for $600 million to fund welfare-related transport programs over the next six years. It also is backing a five-city experiment called Bridges to Work, designed to identity which programs work best" (The Wall Street Journal).

OF INTEREST--"The military is coming to grips with what companies have known for more than a decade: Banning romance, even adultery, within the ranks is a brush war that borders on impossible to win" (USA TODAY).